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Who I am: Tim King, founder and CEO of Urban Prep Academies in Chicago. One unique thing about me: When I was about 6, my parents bought the book "Where Did I Come From?" by Peter Mayle. For some time, it sat on a high shelf in a bookcase, far out of my reach. Then one night, my grandmother grabbed the book and read it with me, elaborating on all the anatomical illustrations with completely inappropriate language. From that day forward, I thought she was the coolest, hippest grandmother ever. I loved: The "Harry Potter" series by J.K. Rowling. I've read them more than any other books and revisit them often. It's hard to pinpoint exactly what I love so much...

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Who I am: Tim King, founder and CEO of Urban Prep Academies in Chicago.
One unique thing about me: When I was about 6, my parents bought the book "Where Did I Come From?" by Peter Mayle. For some time, it sat on a high shelf in a bookcase,...

We are a group of mothers and sons in Riverside who have met since summer 2002.Our sons were all friends entering fourth grade, and one of the moms suggested starting a book club for the boys. We all thought she was crazy because we didn’t think boys...

Mother's Day is Sunday, and in celebration some of Printers Row's regular contributors discussed their favorite literary moms.
Julia Keller: Laura Bodey from "Gain" by Richard Powers
Literature includes good mothers and bad...

Calling young readers - and grown-ups who read those types of books. Printers Row Lit Fest is the place for you!
Our programming this year reflects the explosion in wonderful books for young readers who are beginning to develop their own taste in...

Our group is made up of women who live in the Del Webb community of Huntley. We meet monthly in each other's homes.
We really liked "Escape" by Carolyn Jessop with Laura Palmer. "Escape" tells the story of Jessop's...

Our club is truly intergenerational. It was started by a 9-year-old and a 67-year-old who shared a love of reading. The group has been meeting about every other month for more than two years.
One of our favorite books was "The Book...

Our book club has only three members. We work at the same company, which allows for ongoing discussion of the book as we read. We've been together for almost four years and are on our 38th book.
Sometimes our book selection inspires field...

HARDCOVER FICTION1. "The Casual Vacancy" by J.K. Rowling (Little, Brown, $35). A small English town is rattled by the unexpected death of an elected official. Last week: —2. "Winter of the World" by Ken Follett (Dutton, $36). The...

Repeat after me.
It's OK …
If I stop reading a book …
Before I've finished it.
If my informal survey of people I run into on a weekly basis is accurate, then 70 percent of you are reacting in horror, 20 percent are nodding in agreement, and 10 percent...

Never mind the Morlocks. For a book lover, the most chilling scene in the 1960 screen adaptation of "The Time Machine" is the one in which the Time Traveler is taken to the decrepit library of the Eloi race. "I can learn all I want about...

The hypocrisy at the heart of "The Hunger Games" is irresistible. Novelist Suzanne Collins, whose trilogy has been decreed "awesome" by, among others, my 5th grade son, indicts violence and organized brutality as tools of mass-audience...

I'm looking at the shelves in my living room and I stopped counting at 140 books with three shelves to go. That's just one room where I stash books. There's two others, plus an office, plus some boxes I've never unpacked, not to mention the digital bits...

All summer long, Printers Row invited kids ages 5-16 to send in book reviews. Here's what young Chicago-area writers had to say. We've left the reviews mostly unedited to let the charm shine through. Watch for more to come."Frog and Toad All...

As Lucy Kobbs turned the final page of the seventh and last book in the "Harry Potter" series, she took a pencil to the wall beside her bed and memorialized the end of an era: 7/22/07, 3:20 a.m."It's one of those books that will stick...

Because I have somehow (sadly) become one of those people who gets his news through Twitter, I was recently confused at an explosion of outrage on my feed over something called "sock puppetry."I couldn't imagine why the long-departed Shari Lewis...

When readers meet Joe, a former Marine and ex-FBI agent who's now a freelance detective and hired gun, he's fighting off an attacker in an alley. After a tough altercation, Joe throws the assailant's body behind a dumpster, lifts his money clip and...

One thing to know about our book club: We are part of the thousands of Red Hat Society chapters throughout the world and call ourselves the Downers Grove Park District Scarlett Bloomers. Our book group began in 2005, and we meet at the Downers Grove ...

One thing to know about your book club: We began our first meetings at the historic Dole Mansion in Crystal Lake; we later moved on to a couple of coffee houses. But for the past year we have been having breakfast meetings at Benedict's restaurant....

One thing to know about our book group: "Here's to Books" was inspired by Oprah Winfrey 14 years ago and includes half of the original members. We range in age from 32 to 78 and include educators and health professionals.Authors we'd most...

Jump on a broomstick (or a plane) and head to the United Kingdom to visit landmarks associated with Harry Potter.
With the latest film installment in the series, " Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," now in theaters, the Scotland-based...